California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 1 - Narcotic Treatment Programs

• Section 11839.
  The department, with the approval of the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, may contract with any public or private agency for the performance...
• Section 11839.1.
  The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the best interests of the health and welfare of the people of this state to coordinate...
• Section 11839.2.
  The following medications are authorized for use in narcotic replacement therapy and medication-assisted treatment by licensed narcotic treatment programs:(a) Methadone.(b) Levo-alpha-acetylmethadol (LAAM) as specified in paragraph (10)...
• Section 11839.3.
  (a) In addition to the duties authorized by other statutes, the department shall perform all of the following:(1) License the establishment of narcotic treatment programs in this...
• Section 11839.4.
  The department shall impose a civil penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) per day for a program that fails to timely submit a corrective action...
• Section 11839.5.
  In addition to the duties authorized by other provisions, the department shall be responsible for licensing narcotic treatment programs to use narcotic replacement therapy and...
• Section 11839.6.
  (a) The department shall establish a program for the operation and regulation of office-based narcotic treatment programs. An office-based narcotic treatment program established pursuant to this...
• Section 11839.7.
  (a) (1) Each narcotic treatment program authorized to use narcotic replacement therapy in this state, except narcotic treatment research programs approved by the Research Advisory Panel, shall...
• Section 11839.8.
  The director may deny the application for initial issuance of a license if the applicant or any partner, officer, director, 10 percent or greater shareholder,...
• Section 11839.9.
  (a) The director shall suspend or revoke any license issued under this article, or deny an application to renew a license or to modify the terms...
• Section 11839.10.a.
  (a) The department shall cease review of an application for a license if either of the following occur:(1) An application for a license indicates, or the department...
• Section 11839.11.
  A narcotic treatment program license shall automatically terminate if the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration withdraws or revokes its approval of the program,...
• Section 11839.12.
  Except as provided in Section 11839.16, proceedings for the suspension, revocation, or denial of a license or cessation of review of a renewal license under...
• Section 11839.13.
  (a) The withdrawal of an application for a license after it has been filed with the department shall not, unless the department consents in writing to...
• Section 11839.14.
  For purposes of this article, a conviction means a plea or verdict of guilty or a conviction following a plea of nolo contendere. Any action...
• Section 11839.15.
  The director may bring an action to enjoin the violation of Section 11839.7, or the violation of a departmental order issued pursuant to Section 11839.16,...
• Section 11839.16.
  (a) (1) The director shall, in addition to any other remedy, issue an order that prohibits a narcotic treatment program from admitting new patients or from providing...
• Section 11839.17.
  (a) In cases where a program is closing and the licensed entity that has agreed to assume temporary operation of the closing program is unable to...
• Section 11839.18.
  Any licensee may petition the director for waiver of licensure fees or late payment penalties for the current fiscal year based upon financial hardship. Prior...
• Section 11839.19.
  (a) The department shall not license the establishment of a narcotic treatment program without a written application by the treatment facility that meets evaluative criteria required...
• Section 11839.20.a.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in licensing narcotic treatment programs to provide a means whereby the patient may be rehabilitated and will no...
• Section 11839.21.
  The State Department of Health Services shall establish criteria for acceptable performance from those laboratories performing urinalysis or other body fluid analysis and shall not...
• Section 11839.22.
  The state department shall require a system to detect multiple registrations by narcotic treatment program patients.(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 484, Sec. 2. (SB 973)...

Last modified: October 22, 2018